Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.

- Peter Wessel Zapffe

When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based …

- Peter Wessel Zapffe

As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.

- Peter Wessel Zapffe

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

- Peter Wessel Zapffe

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

- Peter Wessel Zapffe

In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation…

- Peter Wessel Zapffe

Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.

- Peter Wessel Zapffe

The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light o…

- Peter Wessel Zapffe

The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.

- Peter Wessel Zapffe